[oclug] Disintermediate the telephone company

[Zac Sprackett]

* Greg Franks wrote:
> On a related topic... while cell towers may or may not have standby
> power, those using VOIP at the customer premise probably aren't.
> Fibre to the home has this problem too... how do you keep the customer
> premise equipment powered up during a power failure?  Batteries?  What
> happens when they die from old age. etc.

A UPS, Power over Ethernet and a Generator works in most cases for VoIP
in my experience.

-z
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zac sprackett                             zac at sprackett dot com
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